There is an excellent analysis in the U.K. Guardian about a potential military intervention in Syria, definitely worth reading.
From the link above:
(any intervention in syria) will (not) stop the killing. It will escalate it. That is the clear lesson of last year's Nato intervention in Libya. When it began, the death toll was 1,000 to 2,000. By the time Muammar Gaddafi was captured and lynched seven months later, it was estimated at more than 10 times that figure. The legacy of foreign intervention in Libya has also been mass ethnic cleansing, torture and detention without trial, continuing armed conflict, and a western-orchestrated administration so unaccountable it resisted revealing its members' names.
If there is military intervention at this point it will be disastrous and, in some ways, hypocritical. What I found amazing is that Hillary accused the Russians for vetoing the UN resolution and for selling weapons to the Syrian regime, while at the same time we supply the Bahrain regime with weapons. The regime in Bahrain has also systematically slaughtered civilians but no one talks about it. Why? Is it because they are "allies"? Like the Saudis? Or because we still sell weapons to them?
And as the author of the article in the Guardian points:
US, British and French leaders are busy setting up a new coalition of the willing with their autocratic Saudi and Gulf allies, satirically named "friends of democratic Syria",
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Really. How more democratic are Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain than the Syrian regime? They are certainly at least as bad. And them calling Assad anti-democratic is totally ridiculous. They are not any better themselves. They all dictators willing to kill their people, as they did in Bahrain.
The author of the article in the Guardian is right. We should stay out of the civil war in Syria. We dont need another war after Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. And, most importantly, we should be consistent in our calls for democracy. We should condemn all dictators. Not only regimes that are not sympathetic or obedient to us.